No Man's Sky Did Not "Harm" PlayStation Brand, But PR Strategy Not the Best, Exec Says

So the president of Sony is happy with a unfinished game. I hope Yoshidas statements really open the minds of some of you die hard Playstation fans. You cant keep damage controlling for Sony and support them on any decision because at the end of the day they only care about your money even if the games are unfinished and isnt the quality that we all deserve. Look how Yoshida gloats on sales meanwhile the gamers who bought the game gets the short end of the stick. I persoally think Yoshida shouldve been a little more apologetic since they were the ones who published the game. I see they also failed to mention the massive refunds.

Sean Murray and Hello Kitty Games have disappeared..... I don't blame them. Glad I didn't buy the hype or the game.

I was one of the "level headed" ones at the start who thought people might be blowing this whole thing a bit out of proportion. But after playing it now and Hello basically having gone dark....nope, the conspiracy theorist were pretty much right about everything.

We were basically scammed, plain and simple. Plenty of blame to go around, but I know I'll never buy another digital game again that I can't resell, and between this and everything else Sony has done lately....the brand is pretty effing hurt on my end.

Yoshida is a damn moron. Always pandering, always without accountability.

This article is bullshit..no one knows why the game shipped like it did, was it sony rushing it--was it sean murray just lying---It just seems like someone so passionate about his game all of a sudden shipped with all the content shown in trailers missing, Sean murray had to know people would lose their damn minds. The real issue though is nobody has come forth to explain it. Hello games have said nothing while sony just puts out dumbass articles like this...And by the way has anyone else who has the ps4 version having problems with the galactic map not opening anymore I can find zero info on this..It makes a shitty game shittier..

I liked the game- what little I played of it on PC when it came out. The problem for me is that it makes me sick. I have been told by random nobodies that are not doctors on the internet that the game gives me motion sickness based on my symptoms. I don't know. I don't get sick playing any other game, but this game is impossible for me to play.

I will say, though, that the UI in this game is awful. But as a game I like the concepts. It is overpriced though knowing what I know about all there is to do in this game and what there is to look forward to. I suspect that's why people are mad about it. I also suspect that's why sales look so great.

@carsomnyr: Which nobody had lol

The game didn't harm PlayStation's rep but severely hurt Hello Games rep. They are in complete damage control right now. They are working hard to add more free content to help save their image so gamers will consider, consider buying their next game. I spent 60 hours on the game and got the Platinum. I really enjoyed the game. However, there was so much content left out. At the end I was done because I was so sad about the lost potential. The cave system alone is magnificent but lacking. They could have put Pirate hideouts or Bosses in the caves. They are beautiful and have a predator in them from time to time. I also got lost in the caves once and looked up and used my plasma grenade launcher to blow a tube type hole in the ceiling (like Red Faction) to jet pack to the surface when many predators were almost on me. The space combat also needs some love as it was lacking. The game has so much potential! Mining and shopping for news ships was really addicting to me. After typing this post up I am looking forward to getting back in the game when new content is released.

No Man's Sky Did Not "Harm" PlayStation Brand . PS4 pro and slim did that all by themselves.

Disappointed with NMS like pretty much everyone, but in its current state the game is still a solid foundation with a huge amount of potential. My hope is that they'll give it a Minecraft-style update treatment, constantly adding new features for years into the future.

Problem is that Minecraft gets continued support because it has multiplayer and is on every platform you can think of, while NMS has no MP and is only on 2 platforms.

"it faced the uphill battle of living up to what people expected it to be"

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"it faced the uphill battle of living up to what people were told, and shown, it WOULD be"

Corrected that for you. Need to stop blaming the gamers.

if games want to salvage the gaming community then the pre-ordering has to stop.

I think, and I'm not defending him, that he's probably right.

The hype on this was weird. Like, WEIRD in how it played across gaming circles. Those of us in the know? Sure. Inundated. But most of my friends who play games (which is pretty much all of them) who do not go to gaming sites and think E3 is the new model of BMW (which is pretty much all of them) had NO idea what No Man's Sky was.

I mean, if you asked "Were you really disappointed with No Man's Sky/Hello Games/Sean Murray?" They'd have said "is that a new show on Netflix/on my phone/the new left wing for the Bruins?"

They knew who was on the cover of Madden. That they did.

And, like it or not, there's far more people who buy consoles to play Madden than there are weirdos like us who livestream E3. And their perception of the Playstation brand wasn't affected by this at all.

i hope they can save this game. if some fun activities were added to it, it'd turn this into a classic. I loved the first hour or two in this game, i really felt like i was stranded and was fighting to survive but it became very quickly just a repetitive game and once i got all my stuff upgraded i had nothing left to do.

if they'd add ways to teleport back to any planet you've been to and add some ways to create buildings on planets that'd give you something to do. Also they need to add a local planetary map so you can navigate around and mark areas on the map you want to. As it is right now you get lost instantly. There should also be a hotkey to instantly hide the UI since there already is a way to in the video options, but there should be a shortcut key to do so instead of such an awkward way to do it.

This game as it is, to me it feels like 25% of a complete game. That 25% is good but its not enough to keep me playing it.

Lies, lies lies and more lies.

Wow. Talk about Sony trying to cover their ass. Yup, let's blame the developer. What a load of crap. They were responsible for the marketing campaign and should have handled PR better.

In other words, "It wasn't a great PR strategy but it made us a lot of money, so who cares. Sheople will always buy the hype, therefore this business practice works well enough."

Nothing he said here was wrong but it's just not okay to throw all the blame on Murray when Sony probably had everything to do with it's price and generally being treated like a AAA game at least to the degree it could be with the way it looks. Even if that wasn't Sony's idea they deserve blame for going along with it when they knew what it was and if they didn't know then they should have made sure.